Scapegallows

Carol Birch

earliest edition we have, 2007 Virago Press, 2007 435 pages

Margaret Catchpole was born into a smugglers' world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. A spirited woman, she meets her match in Will Laud, 'hell-born babe' and wanderer, with an easy knack for evading the excise men. As the valued servant of a wealthy family and a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life that will inevitably bring about her downfall, and she is twice sentenced to hang - but she escapes the gallow...

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Scapegallows edition · 2008 · Virago Press · 435 pages · 9781844083916
Scapegallows edition · 2008 · Magna Large Print Books · 474 pages · 9780750529334
Scapegallows edition · 2007 · Virago Press · 435 pages · 9781844083909

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